To close out a big year in recruitment, we’re sharing our our Best Of Blogs list from 2016. In these 5 popular posts, our IQ PARTNERS headhunters touch on the year’s hottest topics for hiring managers and job seekers.

“We set out to be a growth company from the beginning so we’re pretty proud of this honour” said Bruce Powell, Managing Partner. “Not only that, the challenge keeps getting bigger as each year so as a company it keeps us on our toes. We’re hoping to be back again next year!”

Kevin Walker, Director of Employee Insights at Indeed.com shared a great example of just that. He explains, “A company was advertising a position using the title ‘Marketing Coordinator 3’”, a vague title that could really mean anything. “By changing the title to ‘Marketing Event Coordinator’, the number of candidates that looked at the full job posting increased 300% for the organic listing, and 1000% on the sponsored listing”, said Walker.

We had trouble articulating the secret sauce that sets us apart from other recruitment firms, so we asked each of our IQ PARTNERS recruiters why they choose to work here… and got 36 unique answers. Here they are, in no particular order:

IQ PARTNERS is proud to be named a PROFIT 500 Fastest-Growing Company by Canadian Business and PROFIT for the fourth time. Published in the October issue of Canadian Business and at PROFITguide.com, the PROFIT 500 ranks Canadian businesses by their five-year revenue growth.

It is no secret that competition for the best talent has never been fiercer. Innovative companies are going to greater lengths than ever to attract and retain the best of the best, so how do you keep up? In this blog I’ll break down where to start with your talent acquisition plan and how companies are thinking outside the box to attract the very best in the market.

IQ PARTNERS is Canada’s leading Executive Search & Recruitment firm. We help companies hire better, hire less & retain more. We have specialists in a number of industries and we operate at the mid-to-senior management level.